I can’t believe that blogger got such a good picture of the new set! I went to the recording on Monday and whilst I can’t remember if they actually said don’t take pictures they are normally VERY strict on such things! And that pics looks almost professional! Get that guy a job as a spy!

Each seat has a box next to it where the item to pitch for being put in room 101 appears. What happens when an item is chosen is it goes back down, and the cover comes over - then it appears on the screen going into the vault.

You're 100% correct Audio Rebel! (although there are certain male comedians who are also on every show). Also, they are also going to be having Josh Groban and Alice Cooper as guests! Here's a list of 17 guests. I don't know how many episodes this series will be.

The new series of Room 101 starts Friday 20th January 8.30pm BBC1.According to the tv guide there are 8 episodes in this series.

And the first guests are Fern Britton, Robert Webb and Danny Baker, which is the one that i went to see. It also means that are not airing in the order they were filmed as this was the 3rd episode to be recorded.

And the first guests are Fern Britton, Robert Webb and Danny Baker, which is the one that i went to see. It also means that are not airing in the order they were filmed as this was the 3rd episode to be recorded.

That's the one I went to as well!

I wish I'd remembered to let people know on here that they were offering out more audience tickets at the start of January. Sorry!

I went to see one of the recordings on Tuesday which had Rebecca Front, Micky Flanagan and John Prescott as guests. I enjoyed it, it had some very funny bits but I think it's too much like a panel show now and as such I don't think it will last as long as the previous formats did.

Does anyone remember that Who Would You Invite To Dinner? With Ann Robinson - choose five guests dead or alive (y'know what I mean)

Well, The Sun said (before the first episode was aired) thast Ricky Gervais would be first guest and the first thing AR said to him was he looks fatter in real life. His choices were obvious type ones, Elvis, Ghandi, JfK, Ali types.

What is odd is that it's down as a 30 minute show, yet they filmed for 2.5 hours. If they edit that down, they'll lose everything!

I think most panel quiz shows record 2 to 3 hours then cut it down, QI and Would I lie To You Do. They do similar with some radio shows - 'I've Never Seen Star Wars lasted about 2.5hours and it was a shame they had to cut it down as well.

They should get rid of BBC3 and convert into a channel that shows unedited versions of shows...I'd watch them...

I saw an edition of Would I Lie To You recorded and they recorded 3hours which was cut down to 30minutes...In my opinion they should have cut another 30minutes out of it as the whole evening was a bit of a drag...although David Mitchell and Lee Mack were superb.

Oh, as for Room 101: why mess with an OK set up...it wasn;t getting tired for me it's a bit like Desert Island Discs: two people chatting and DID has been going for decades and is still great...everyone is different because it's about a different person each week and we are all different.

A change to a panel show is weak and unappealling...No problem with Mr Skinner...doubt I will watch it.